Encounter Footbridge
In facing the fast-paced urban life, the Encounter footbridge offers a meandering path to slow down peoples movements, guiding the pace of people who are crossing the river. It offers the possibliy of getting to look at the environment in different perspecitves, meeting other people and refecting on ourselves at the same time.
Architectural Design and Visualization: Feifei Feng
The concept was inspired by the local parable-esque story of the encounter of two soulmates, Boyazi and Zhong ziqi and the famous melody of “Lofty mountains and Flowing River” - “高山流水遇知音” 。
"Bo Ya was good at playing the qin. Zhong Ziqi was good at listening to the qin. When Bo Ya's will was towards high mountains in his playing, Zhong Ziqi would say, 'How towering like Mount Tai!' When Bo Ya's will was towards flowing water in his playing, Zhong Ziqi would say, 'How vast are the rivers and oceans!' Whatever Bo Ya thought of Ziqi would never fail to understand. Bo Ya said, 'Amazing! Your heart and mine are the same!' When Ziqi died, Bo Ya broke the strings [of his qin] and vowed never to play [the qin] again. Thus, there was the melody of High Mountains Flowing Water."
The new footbridge celebrates the cultural importance of the story, and forms the backdrop for new encounters for generations to come.
